[ckan-dev] Suggesting we use stack overflow

Thu Sep 10 16:55:59 UTC 2015

I would love to see some of those discussions on stackoverflow, but we'd
probably need the original posters to take up that initiative by adding the
original issue summary and then a response with the solution summary.

*STEVEN DE COSTA *|
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On 11 September 2015 at 02:19, Tanmay Thakur <tthakur at accela.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tthakur at accela.com');>> wrote:

> Using StackOverflow is a good idea. It will be much easy to get a glance
> of the problem on it rather than email.
> Also, there are many interesting discussions in the mailing list. Are we
> planning to identify those and put it up on stack overflow too?
>
> Regards,
> Tanmay
>
> From: ckan-dev <ckan-dev-bounces at lists.okfn.org
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> behalf of Steven De Costa <steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au
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> Reply-To: CKAN Development Discussions <ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
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> Date: Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 8:55 AM
> To: CKAN Development Discussions <ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
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> Subject: Re: [ckan-dev] Suggesting we use stack overflow
>
> Cool - I'll wait to see what others might say and maybe do some general
> updates and announcements over the weekend.
>
> I just don't want to discourage anyone from using this list to reach out
> either :)
>
> So, for example, we'd encourage folks to refer to a question they have put
> up on stackoverflow which they'd like to bump some attention onto via an
> email within this list...
>
> When people describe a full issue here we'd politely ask them to drop it
> into stackoverflow so it can be answered and later referred to by more
> people who experience the same issues, blockers or frustrations.
>
> Identifying trends around common problems added to stackoverflow will also
> help us improve CKAN :)
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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>
>
> On 11 September 2015 at 01:46, Denis Zgonjanin <deniszgonjanin at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','deniszgonjanin at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> I think that's a good idea. We have github for technical discussion among
>> CKAN developers, so the dev list has become more of a general place to ask
>> troubleshooting questions about CKAN. Sometimes they get unanswered. Stack
>> Overflow incentivizes answering these a bit better, through magical
>> internet points.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Steven De Costa <
>> steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au');>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> hi everyone,
>>>
>>> This list has been quite active over the last few months with CKAN
>>> support questions that I suspect would give a lot of value to people if
>>> they were addressed in a more public technical forum such as here:
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ckan
>>>
>>> Stack overflow over the same period has probably received less attention
>>> as a result of the activity here (there are a few recent questions
>>> unanswered currently).
>>>
>>> Related to this suggestion, I've recently setup an Asia-Pacific CKAN
>>> meetup that will run every two weeks. As we bring new people into the
>>> project I'd like to refer to the dev list as a good place for discussing
>>> core development and extension work while also encouraging people to
>>> monitor stack overflow for supporting users around general install, config,
>>> upgrade and troubleshooting issues.
>>>
>>> Does this all sound reasonable? If so then I can update the CKAN.org
>>> website a little, write a blog post and generally help in directing
>>> questions into the best areas.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Steven
>>>
>>>
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